"If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level."
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"One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who've gone before and those who will come, and that there is a community of spirits.“
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"Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine."
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"Your thoughts and emotions are yours alone."
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"You are forever alone."
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"I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between them yet, let alone settle down to the process of writing."
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"For each one of us stands alone in the midst of a universe."
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